Corn harvester and husker.



PATENTS?) MAR. 13, 1906.

3. A, STONE. CORN HARVESTER AND HUSKE APPLICATION FILED OUT. 14.1905.

2 suns-583m 1 8 PATENTED MAR. 13. 1906.

J. A. STONE.

CORN HAEVBSTBR AND HUSKER. uruoumn nun oo'r. 14.1905.

2 SHEETB-BHBBT 2- warvzgw UNITED srnfrns PATENT OFFICE.

JOHl l Alf-STONE, OI! CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL HARV ESTER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CORN HARVESTER AND HUSKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 13, 1906.

Application filed October 14, 1905. Serial No. 282,7 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. STONE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn Harvesters and Huskers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawin s forming a part thereof.

y invention relates to corn harvesters and huskers, and particularly to that type of such machines having one or more pairs of feeding and snapping rollers upwardly and rearwardly inclined from the front of the machine and designed. to receive a row of corn between them for the purpose of feeding the stalks rearward and downward and stripping the ears therefrom, the ears being conveyed to suitable huskin devices forming a part of the complete mac line.

The object of the invention is to provide a means for presenting the ears to the snapping-rollers in a manner to assist in a better an more certain separation of the ears from the stalks. l attain this object by the mechanism illustrated by the accompanying drawin in which *igure 1 represents a side elevation, partly in section, of a part of a corn-harvestcr embodying m invention. Fig. 2 is a plan View of a part oi Fig. 1, showing the forward por tion of the snapping-rollers and the manner of attaching the fender-rods. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation, part1 r in section, of the machine as viewed from t e o posits side of that illustrated by F ig. 1 and l ig. 4 represents a cross-section of Fig. 3 on line A B, the sna ping-rollers being shown in section.

eferring to the drawings, like reference characters denote like parts throughout the several views.

1 represents the main drive-wheel, upon which IS mounted a suitable wheel-frame 2, havin forwardly-projecting members 3, designe to form a passage-way 4 for the incoming cornstalks.

5 represents a guiding-prong, one upon each side of the passage-way, mounted at their forward ends upon the members 3 and extending rearward and upward.

6 and 7 are the snapping-rollers, suitably mounted upon the main frame and extendin rearward and upward substantially paralle with the guiding-prongs 5, and 8 is a conveyer designed to receive the ears of born as they are separated from the stalks and convey them to the husking mechanism, {not sl1own,) the snapping-roller 6 ad'acent the conveyor being located in a planeelow that of the oppositely-disposed roller 7 for the purpose of insuring the proper presentation of the ears to the conveyor. Overlappin the forward ends of the snapping-rollers an in a plane above and substantially parallel therewith are feeding-rollers 9, one upon each side of the corn passage-way.

The machine as so far described is substantially like that shown in my United States Patent No. 786,239, issued March 28, 1905. It has been found in operating machines designed as illustrated therein that some ofthe ears of corn were not properly presented to the snapping-rollers, particularly the smaller ones and those having the husks closely adhering to the points of them, which are usually hanging downward from the stalks and would be presented to the snapping-rollers in that position, resultin in more or less shelling of the corn from t e ears. To cure the above evil is the principal object of my invention, and as a means for attaining that result I have provided two oppositely-disposed fender-rods l0 and 11, one u on each side of the corn passage-way an having theirforward ends secured to the frame-bars 3 and extending rearward, inward, and upward through supporting-brackets I2 and 13, having their rear ends arra ed in substantially the same plane, para lel with each other and havin a narrow passage-way between them for t ie reception of the incoming stalks, the rod 11 extending farther rearwar and having a laterally-extending ortion 14, projecting loosely through the s1 e wall 14', secured to the fixed frame of the guidingprong upon that side of the passage-way, the oppositely-disposed rod 10 aving a hooked portion 15 extending laterally and forwardly of the body portion for the purpose of deflecting any separated ears that may slide downward along the rolls toward the earconveyer.

In operation the machine receives the row of corn between the guiding-pro and it enters between the forward ends Elle feedlug-rollers that assist in conducting the stalks rearward, where they are received between the snapping-rollers and the olppositelcydisposed fender-rods. As the sta ks are rawn downward by the action of the snapping- 5 rollers they are closely pressed together by the yielding fender-rods and the ears are swung outward at their points by coming in contact with the rods and have their buttends presented to the snappin action of the to rollers, elleeting a more comp etc and satisfactory separation of the cars from the stalks. What I claim as being my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a corn-harvester, the combination of a main drive-wheel, a wheel-frame having forwardlyprojecting members forming a assage-way for the cornstalks, snapping-r0 lers suitably mounted upon opposite sides of said passage-way and inclined rearward and upward, an ear-conveyor arranged at one side of said passage-way, means for delivering the corn to said snapping-rellers comprising rearwardly inwardly and upwardly inclined. yielding fender rods having their forward ends secured to said forwardlyrojecting ing passage-way for the incoming stalks and having the rear end of the fender-rod adjacent said our conveyor curved laterally downwardly and l'orwardly toward said earconveyor in a manner to deflect the ears thereto.

2. In a corn-harvester, thecombination of a main drive-wheel, a wheel-frame having forwardly-projecting members forming a assage-way for the cornstalks, snapping-r0 lers suitably mounted upon 0 posite sides of said passage-way and inclined rearward and u ward, an ear-conveyer arranged at one si e of said passage-way, means for delivering the corn to said sna ping-rollers com rising rearwardly, inwardly and upwar l Y inclined yielding fender-rods having their forward ends secured to said forwardlyrejecting frame members and their rear en sextending substantially parallel with each other in a plane above and substantially parallel with said snapping-rollers, forming a narrow yielding passage-way for the incoming stalks and having the rear end of the fender-rod ad'acent said car conveyor curved laterally downwardly and forwardly toward said carconveyer in a manner to deflect the ears thereto, and the oppositely-disposed fenderrod extended in rear of the end of the firstmentioned rod and loosely connected with a fixed part of the machine.

In witness whereof I hereto a'll'ix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. STONE. Witnesses:

SIDNEY W. NIcHoLLs, O. A. ANDERSON. 

